Sonia Gandhi completes 10 years at the helm of the Congress today, and difficult as it may be to believe, she has become the longest serving president of the Indian National Congress. In ten years, a reluctant foreign bahu, who spoke with a pronounced accent and was dead against her husband getting into politics, has become a canny, nationally recognisable figure, capable of keeping together a ragtag coalition of egotistical and self-serving politicians.

There are some who say the Congress is a much better party than the one she inherited; there are some others who say it is all downhill from here. There are some who say she represents dynastic politics at its worst; there are some others who say she has nothing to prove after having listened to her “inner voice” and saying no. There are some who say she is the Pope’s mole in Delhi; there are some who say she represents a future clean from religious hate.

What is the one question you are dying to ask Sonia Gandhi? Keep your queries, short, civil and shorn of misogynism.

How does it feel to reject PM post ? What was(is) your strategy for after making Congress more electable ? No doubt Cheddis will make it easier for you by exposing their intellectual bankruptcy by harping on your foreign origin (again and again and again).

how much was your cut in the deal brokered by your close italian associate who was allowed to escape from india and whose bank accounts were de frozen subsequently.When will your beta Rahul Gandhi marry.

wow!! such a nice, warm & fuzzy picture. rajiv looking ahead, sonia at his feet and yet marching ahead, covered all the way upto her head, complete with half naked indians in tow.

this one is meant as much to appeal to stereotypes as it is meant re-inforce them.

i am trying to recollect if there was ever any other nice and fuzzy pics in the one question i am dying to ask series. all i can remember is brooding portraits, idiots in compromising positions or some such stuff…

the only other soft fuzzy image was of again the same lead couple eating ice at india gate.

365 x 10 = 3650 days. No man has come up in Congress. For everything Madam and HIgh Command..that is the culture of Congress. They have mortgaged/hypothecated their heads to the President. Jai Head Mistress of the Congress. Look forward to celebrating the silver jubilee of the Congress Presidentship by the same president. Jai Soniamaata!

How could you smirk and sit listening, when your party MP were grovelling before you and making vomit-worthy speeches about your ‘greatness’, when they were trying to persuade to be their prime minister? Did you enjoy the show when your party people were singing paens to you in a hijra-like manner on national television?

duh! she is half italian. pardon my stereo keyboarding but if there is anybody more parochial than the biraders of the north, especially to the west of the indus, it is the italians.

have you not seen the godfather and observed what sonny and michael do to their italian wimmen? expressly contrast that to the parochialism in eradu kanasu. essentially, the kalpana character puts her foot down and crawls right back in from where an impotent and incapable rajkumar drops her. (btw kudos to RK to have done such a role in the peak of his career. cant imagine any of these modern days heroes going anywhere near that role)

before you prescribe the right pills to me, i know this is all not reality and only celluloid world. but writing and cinema represents some part of idealism of their societies no? only thing that has changed in the movies made in mumbai is the celluite content, otherwise the image of a ‘bahurani’ still rocks. and guess who has perfected that role, complete with a seragu over head?

wake me up when they write anything even bordering
makkaLiddare kaNe akka, mane tumba.
not withstanding all the vulgarities we see around us, that single line of poetry represents a > 1000 year tradition of girl power.

not some artless opportunist who relies on a whole lot of cultural nonsense, a bunch of shandas and the thapars and the sanghvis and the mehtas of the world for sustenance.

Do you really feel that ur son could be a worthy leader ??…If you could advice all and sundry and be the power center of the nation , with all your wisdom and knowledge why cant you stop your bumbling son and send him to Italy to tend to some vespa scooter?

Aren’t we very much like the British? They used to import their royals from Hanover. Our ruling royal comes from Italy.

I wouldn’t mind in the least if the golden girl (our reverence for white skin!) had an ounce of Mahatma’s greatness and Nehru’s vision. Indiramma inflicted the rookie Rajiv and the amoral Sanjay on us. Now this billionaire foreign amma is foisting her non-educated, uneducable Harvard and Oxfordian son on us, while the daughter handles the family’s billions garnered from the foundations set up to memorialize a power hungry family’s rapaciousness.

The Mughals have been in power too long after independence. Why can’t we an Akbar once in a while?

Not anymore than Indiramma knew what Chikkamagaluru was. We might take comfort in the thought that the entire district of Bellary is out of the Congress’s hands and Priyanka will not win if she were to contest from there.

Janardhana Reddy is the MLA and his brother the MP. The Congress lost seven of its surest constituencies in the last election. Not much money is leaving Karnataka in suitcases to fill the coffers of the Congress. Prakash, or his son, is sure to take a drubbing.

So that’s what it is the Reddy’s vs the Gandhi’s after all. So you can se there isnt any diffrence between the Sonia Kripaposhita Nataka Mandali and the Reddy Drama House!This is the gathi of the people of Vijayanagara.